Africa: Commodities: The Trade Challenge

With new rules and new markets, African companies are fighting for a bigger stake in the continent’s resource bonanza. At the same time, multinational traders like Glencore are targeting Africa as they seek to control commodity value chains.
For a couple of days in mid-June, as the rest of the world settled down to watch the World Cup, Chad made a rare foray into the global news headlines. Idris Déby Itno, its dapper deal-making president who had paid a call a month earlier at the Elysée Palace to see France’s President François Hollande, announced that Chad’s capital, N’Djamena, was going to be headquarters for the regional campaign against jihadists in Nigeria, Mali and beyond………………………………………..Full Article: Source